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[House.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Feb.  6,  1865.— Ordered 
to  be  laid  on  the  table  and  printed. 

[Presented  by  Mr.  Barksdale.] 


RESOLUTIONS 

Adopted  hy  Humphrey' s  Mississippi  Brigade^  Army  of  Northern 
Virginia^  February  3,  1865. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  officers  and  men  of  Humphrey's  Mississippi 
Brigade,  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  held  February  3d,  1865,  the 
following  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted : 

RESOLUTIONS. 

licsolved  1st.  That  the  solemn  obligation  voluntarily  incurred  by 
us  nearly  four  years  ago,  to  serve  the  Confederate  States  faithfully 
against  her  enemies,  and  the  melancholy  but  sweet  recollections  of 
comrades  who  now  sleep  in  bloody  graves,  preclude  forever  for  us 
the  sacrilege  of  a  Re-construction. 

2d.  That  the  inhumanity  of  a  cruel  foe,  his  cold-blooded  murders, 
and  the  ingenuity  to  practice  whatever  could  wound  the  sensibilities 
of  a  high-spirited  people,  have  not  weakened  our  allegiance,  or 
caused  us  to  regret  the  steps  we  have  taken. 

3d.  That  we  see  no  cause  for  despondency  in  the  condition  of  our 
affairs;  and  with  an  abitling  faith  in  the  mercy  of  "the  Giver  of 
every  good  and  perfect  gift,"  we  trust  soon,  under  the  guidance  of 
that  Christian  warrior,  General  R.  E.  Lee,  to  tinge  with  a  silver 
lining  the  cloud  that  has  so  long  obscured  the  destiny  of  our  Con- 
federacy. 

-1th,  That  our  confidence  in  President  Davis  amounts  to  admira- 
tion and  love  ;  that  his  strong,  self-reliant  character,  his  noble  cour- 
age in  trying  times,  and  his  pure  patriotism,  furnish  the  highest 
example  ever  oflfered  to  a  people  struggling  for   national  existence. 

5th.  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  President  Davis, 
to  our  Senators  and  Representtitives  from  Mississippi,  to  the  Rich- 
mond Examiner  and  Sentinel,  rocjuesting  the  other  Richmond  papers 
to  copy,  and  to  the  Eastern  (Mississippi)  Clarion. 

R.  E.  YARBROUGH,  Secretary. 


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